Name: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)
Rating: 1 (8 reviews)
Author: Discontinued Products

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Visual SourceSafe is a discontinued source control software offering, from Microsoft.

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Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)

Software Configuration Management Tools handle the task of tracking and controlling changes in the software including revision control and the establishment of baselines.

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User interface

Source control

Previous version

Not modern

Extremely slow

User friendly

Not user friendly

Conflict resolution

Perform well

Tree structure

Ease of administration

Main strength

Self contained

Visual studio

Local drive

Software development

Code repository

Add tags

Create a project

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Visual SourceSafe (VSS) is still used across the organization. We are in the process of trying to migrate off this platform as well as off of Microsoft Team Foundation Server. We are migrating towards Azure DevOps. Visual SourceSafe has reached its end of life and we have experienced many issues.

At this point in its lifecycle there are not many things VSS does well
Its main strength would be its ability to be self contained on a local drive
It is a basic Code repository

VSS is prone to corruption causing the DB to have to be rebuilt
It does not perform well if you have a lot of code in it it will be very slow
No searching basic tree structure

There were many benefits years ago when this product first came out
Now there is only risk for an enterprise
The corrupted DB issues have cost hundreds of man hours to correct

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Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS), GitHub, Apache Subversion

We are still using Visual SourceSafe for a few software projects that weren't yet migrated to SVN or Git. At the time when these projects were started (many years ago), VSS was pretty much the best available option on the market for versioning of our source code. It allowed us to keep it stored on a server and not on the local development system and to allow more people to work on the same project.

The integration with Visual Studio is its best asset for developers using Visual Studio for software development.
File versioning - creates file versions with notes.
Ability to add tags to create a project version.
Ease of administration.

The system stability could be improved. Often we get file corrupted errors.
The User Interface is not modern and not user-friendly.
Concurrent check-outs could be added, allowing more people to work on the same file at the same time.
Add conflict resolution, files comparison, blame file, features that any modern source control program should have.

When we started using it, it allowed us to do source code versioning and store the code in a centralized location and not locally.
We are using it for very few projects with few developers that still maintain those applications and do not have time to merge the source code to Git.

In my organization, Visual Source Safe is mainly used to correctly manage the versioning of the various development files in Visual Studio. Since I use this product I can always have the correct versioning of the files, avoiding the loss of the code and analyzing the changes made by checking the previous versions.

avoid losing code
versioning of previous projects
saving versions on db

sometimes there are problems with check-in and checkout if done simultaneously
the user interface is not really nice
only source control

gains in avoiding loss of code
gains in terms of hours spent on development
gains in terms of time saved

Visual SourceSafe was a great tool for its time, but it has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Our organization still has code that is still stored in it from a legacy perspective, so we still have to use it from time to time. We hope every day that it does not corrupt when we open it up.

It has outlived most of the competition out there.
It's good at maintaining exclusive locks.
It's good at being kept on a network share.

Becoming corrupt and having to be rebuild from a previous version.
It can be extremely slow to check in & out of.
Lost support several years ago from Microsoft.

We've lost a lot of hours rebuilding our solution based on lost work/corrupted files.
Only having a single person work on a single file has killed performance
No CI/CI capabilities and had to find other ways to do the process.

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Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)

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What is Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (Discontinued)?